Business Week cover feature: Linux

Post #83,347 by Andrew Grygus 2/22/03 12:23:01 AM Reply	Business Week cover feature: Linux Nine articles on Linux are featured in Business Week. [link\|http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/03_09/b3822602_tc102.htm\|Start Here] with the cover illustration. the articles are listed to the left. All the usual journalistic mistakes and misconceptions are, of course, included. [link\|http://www.aaxnet.com\|AAx]
Post #83,377 by a6l6e6x 2/22/03 6:00:27 AM Reply	Useful find, Andrew. Some "decision makers" (polite for PHBs) are susceptible to influence from articles like these. I have passed on the link to the local LUG and people in the local schools system project. Alex "No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session."\t-- Mark Twain
Post #83,732 by Steven A S 2/24/03 11:30:51 AM Reply	Re: Business Week cover feature: Linux All the usual journalistic mistakes and misconceptions are, of course, included. So I see: Business Week - Before using open-source software, tech companies must sign a license in which they promise to give away innovations they build on top of it. That looks alot like the FUD Microsoft was trying to sell some time ago. Looks like people bought it. ~~~)-Steven---- "I want you to remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country..." General George S. Patton
Post #83,735 by drewk 2/24/03 11:39:26 AM Reply	Glorious inaccuracy-to-word ratio Before using open-source software, tech companies must sign a license in which they promise to give away innovations they build on top of it. "Before using": OSI-compliant licenses don't apply to running the software. The terms don't apply until you redistribute it. "must sign a license": I've never signed an OSI license. No one has. Though they agree to abide by its terms when they redistribute. "promise to give away innovations": Not unless they redistribute the modified code. "promise to give away innovations": Besides which, they would still "own" those innovations but would, by releasing them as part of a Open Source-licensed project, agree to let others use them. === Implicitly condoning stupidity since 2001.

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